Sebastião Lazaroni

Lazzaroni (2011)

Sebastião Barroso lazzaroni ( born September 25, 1950 in Muriaé, Minas Gerais ) is a Brazilian football coach. He achieved international fame through his involvement as coach of the Brazilian national football team.

Biography

Before he began his coaching career, he was active as a goalkeeper for several amateur clubs. His first coaching position was at Flamengo Rio de Janeiro, where he in 1985 by Mário Zagallo finish first worked as interim coach, had then given the meantime the post of Joubert Meira, before he was even nominated in the same year head coach. In 1986, he won the state championship in Rio de Janeiro his first title as a coach. This he could in the next two years with CR Vasco da Gama, his new club, defend. In CR Vasco da Gama, he worked among others with players such as Romario and Roberto Dinamite. In 1988, he briefly went to Saudi Arabia to Al -Ahli and in the same year but returned back to Brazil. In Brazil, he became coach of Gremio and won with the team the state championship in 1988 in Rio Grande do Sul. But this club left wanderer lazzaroni after one season and became the first coach of Paraná Clube, founded in 1989.

In Paraná he did not even spent an entire season since he was appointed in the same year coach of the Brazilian national football team. These he led in 1989 to win the Copa America and the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy. But in Italy failed the Seleção already in the second round at eventual runners-up Argentina. Therefore, the Brazilian Football Federation lazzaroni decided to dismiss. Lazzaroni nevertheless remained in Italy, because he had signed a contract with Fiorentina. In Florence it though were players like Dunga and Diego Fuser be available but the success was and why he was replaced by Luigi Radice during the season. Nevertheless lazzaroni remained, apart from a brief interlude in Saudi Arabia, Italy and signed with AS Bari. With the then second-rate club he played mixed season, was ninth in Serie B, but nevertheless reached the knockout stages of the Coppa Italia, where the team failed to eventual winners, FC Turin.

After several years of absence, he returned in 1993 returned to America and became the Club León in Mexico coach. In 1994 he joined after his time in Mexico at Gama succeeded Jair Pereira and left the club after the season. Until his involvement with Fenerbahçe Istanbul in 1996 he took a two year career break. In his only season with Fenerbahçe he was third in the domestic league and could in the Champions League with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United, whose series, to stay at home in European competition for forty years undefeated, break.

After the season with Fenerbahçe was followed by several short stops, including in China, as well as in his native Brazil with Botafogo FR. The focus was at this time but his commitment to Jamaica, where he was briefly in 2000 and from 2004 to 2005 head coach of the national team. After his last job as a coach so far he went briefly to EC Juventude in Brazil, before moving for the second time in Turkey and there was briefly manager of Trabzonspor 2006.

Trabzonspor played this season in the UEFA Cup and retired there with lazzaroni as a trainer in the first round against the Spanish side CA Osasuna from. Also in the league with Trabzonspor he was less successful. His dismissal was followed in September after he was responsible for the failure made ​​the club because of its poor transfer policy. After that, he remained in Europe and moved to Portugal Marítimo Funchal. With the club, he completed a successful season and led him into the European Cup. Nevertheless, he left the club after the season and took a lucrative offer from Qatar SC, where he was coach until 2011 August.